The Electoral Commission has today started the process of displaying the National Voters’ Register ahead of by- elections for Local Government Councils .The voter display exercise that starts on Monday November 08 will happen for the next ten days until 17th November.
Paul Bukenya, the Electoral Commission Acting Spokesperson says the exercise will happen at various polling stations from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm on all days of the week.He says the exercise is to help the electoral body clean up the voters’ register by ensuring that particulars of all voters are accurate.
“The purpose of this display exercise is to enable voters to check for the correctness of their particulars on the Voters’ Register, confirm that their photographs appear against correct particulars on the register, raise objections to the inclusion or removal of a voter’s particulars from the register, report to the Display Officer for removal of those who have died, under 18 years, those who reside or originate from a parish other than the one they are registered in and those who appear more than once on the Voters’ Register,” reads part of the statement.
During the display period, the Commission will also issue temporary Voter Location Slips (VLS) to voters, to enable them conveniently locate their respective polling station on polling day.
After the display exercise, the Electoral Commission shall for a period of 6 days also display the lists of all persons recommended for deletion from the National Voters’ Register from 18th to 23rd November at the respective Parish or Ward Headquarters within the said electoral areas.
“The purpose of this supplementary display exercise is to enable any person who may have been wrongly recommended for deletion to raise an objection to the Parish or Ward Tribunal. ”the statement reads further
Bukenya says the updated register will be used during the nomination of candidates on 29th and 30th November and later on, during the Special Interest Groups Councilors’ and district Chairpersons elections on 15th and 16th December, respectively.
